What = Now

And this was the daily game of Reality-Telling…two truths with at least one lie. A morning-midday-evening list-assembling of continuous is-was-ises. Spilled coffee, set aright, sopped with towel. Triples. Thing – thing – relation. So many relations revising so many “things.” Complicating, co-creating, is-was-is.

“Change is never lossless,” it was written. Once comforted by the is of experience – that no matter the grief or anguish, no matter the disaster or rift, the poverty or destruction – experience kept accruing. “Experience is additive even in reduction.” Even deletion adds to experience. Isn’t it nice to know that regardless of what or who or how – for every living thing – at least something accumulates? Grows richer, more varied, expands?

But how calculate that every addition is reductive? That the raw fact of everything adding up = losing? At least this is one way of working the figures. An instant added is an instant taken away. “The Lord giveth…”

The very momentariness, unquantifiability of what happens seems to attest to this. Two precisely equal processes, or hands. The one inviting and offering, delivering; the other letting-go, sweeping aside, and waving goodbye. Moment in, moment past. Experience added, one less experience to have.

Life as a riverbank – new deposits and constant erosion.

The truth is: experience

The truth was: experience brought exactly what it took away

The truth is: experience

(therefore): NOW =

And thus it is known that living is equal to dying and “He who would save his life will lose it” is just a simple fact. Dying is equal to living. It all happens in the same instant. One step further = one step nearer to something else.

Sometimes people smile when they’re together. Sometimes they don’t. And sometimes other things happen.